diana
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʲiənˠə/
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain. Some sources derive this from día (“day”), via Vulgar Latin *dīa from Latin diēs.[1] However, the sense "reveille" comes almost certainly from the Italian expression battere la Diana (“to beat the reveille”), in which Diana is short for Stella Diana ("Diana star"), a 13th- and 14th-century name for the morning star, possibly not named after the Roman goddess but from an adjectival attribute corresponding to Italian dì.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjana/ [ˈd̪ja.na]
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: dia‧na
Noun
diana f (plural dianas)
- (also figurative) bullseye (of an archery target)
- archery target
- reveille (military wakening call)
- Synonym: toque de diana
Derived terms
References
- “diana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “diana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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